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基兰·德赛（Kiran Desai），1971年出生在印度，15岁时定居英国，目前是哥伦比亚大学写作班的一名学生。基兰·德赛的处女作《番石榴园的喧哗》曾受到各方一致赞誉。2006年她凭自己的第二部小说《失落》（The Inheritace of Loss，又译为《失落之遗产》）获得布克奖，成为有史以来赢得该奖项的最年轻的女作家。

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.

Early life and education

Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, and lived there until she was 14. She and her mother then lived in England for a year, and finally moved to the United States where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University and Columbia University.

Awards and recognition

Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie. It went on to win the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.

Her second book, The Inheritance of Loss, (2006) has been widely praised by critics throughout Asia, Europe and the United States and won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

In September 2007 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3.

In May 2007 she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Asian Literature.

Bibliography

* Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 0-571-19336-6
* The Inheritance of Loss, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2006, ISBN 0-241-14348-9

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